5-year jail to Dawood's aide

LUCKNOW: A special ATS judge Balkrishna A Ranjan on Wednesday sentenced MirzaArif Beg, an aide of Dawood Ibrahim, to five years imprisonment in connection with a fake passport case. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 26,000 on Beg. It, however, acquitted a co-accused, Ashraf, for want of evidence.

Additional public prosecutor BrijeshJaiswal argued that Sri Lankan police had sent Beg to Mumbai in 2009 as he had lost his passport. But Mumbai police found that Beg's passport was fake.